Run results for: regexp vs string.includes

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:96.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/96.0

Browser: Firefox 96

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
String.includes	7631455.0 Ops/sec
RegExp	8909585.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var text = ["fasfgagasgagagsagasga", "afasfa<afas>fafasfga</aafas>"];
var isPontiallyHTML1 = (text) => text.includes('<') && text.includes('>');
var isPontiallyHTML2 = (text) => /<[^>]+>/.test(text);

Tests:

String.includes
text.map(isPontiallyHTML1)
RegExp
text.map(isPontiallyHTML2)

Run results for: regexp vs string.includes

String.includes

RegExp